Algernon Sidney Quotes
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The tribal system from which the Celt never freed himself entirely was the curse of the Celtic race, predooming it to ruin.
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The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.
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The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.
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What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.
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Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.
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I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.
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The beauty about living in Atlanta is that there aren't too many paparazzi here; you can just relax. And that really works for me and my children.
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I manage my business; politicians are doing their business. I can only work within their rules and regulations. I can't pick up a political fight.
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In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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If I say 'Find me an interesting painting' to Google, someday a robot could go around the Picasso museum and take a picture for me.
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I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.
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People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.
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I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.
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Unless you're a big movie star, regular television work is going to bring you more exposure than anything. Everybody has a television; not everybody goes to the movies.
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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
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Hats look exactly the same. There's no difference between The Writing Hat and The Acting Hat.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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When I was growing up, nothing unpleasant was shown in the home. And when I was in art school, the only art that was presented to me was Abstract Expressionism. But I was interested in the grim stuff. It seemed more exciting.
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They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers.
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I don't want my personal life to change. I don't understand why people strive for fame. I know it's ironic for me to be saying this, but this will be the last one I do.
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...our quarrels with the world are like our quarrels with God: no matter how right we are, we are wrong.
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The big curse of America, to me, is skinless, boneless chicken breasts. They're banal and relatively flavorless. The rest of the world's trying to get some fat to eat, and we're trying to ban it from our diet.
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God helps those who help themselves.
